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Started by zipster , Mar 06 2007 04:51 PM

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zipster
Posted 06 March 2007 - 04:51 PM

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I recently purchased a new laptop that apparently came preloaded with Vista. When I first tried to start it up, I received an error of some kind, and not knowing anything about Vista, I assumed that it just wasn't installed. So I installed a fresh copy from the disc provided, and then started it up. Not long into the startup, it asked me to choose from two different copies of Windows Vista, so I chose one and started it up. One I had realized that I had two versions installed, I used the disk cleanup tool to remove the windows.old files that were taking up about 10GB of my hard drive. Thinking I would be good to go after that, I restarted only to find that it still asked me which of the two versions I wanted to run. I can only assume that there are some files leftover from the previous version. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to remove that, so that I do not have to choose when I startup, or if I can just set it so that it chooses the correct one without asking. It would be a great convenience if anyone knew the answer, but if not, then it's something I can live with. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
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Posted 06 March 2007 - 11:17 PM

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Hi zipster...

Because Vista uses the BCD rather than the boot.ini, you'll need a third party BCD editing tool such as VistaBoot Pro to edit the old boot instructions out. Be sure to remove the right one and be double sure to back it up (the BCD) before you do the edit. You will be prompted to back up...just follow the prompts.

This tool is quite easy to use so you shouldn't have any problems.

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Posted 07 March 2007 - 02:59 PM

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It was very simple to use, and it starts up like a charm now. :whistling:

Thanks a lot for the help,
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Posted 07 March 2007 - 03:34 PM

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You're very welcome... :whistling:
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